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There was a heated discussion in the Thursday nite church meeting regarding which religion is famous for its prosleytyzing. I did not attend but you could hear everything up to the third floor. The minister made the comment that anyone who is a Buddhist is going to hell and that this is a violent religion and that xtians should try to abolish it once and for all.

My question is: Has anyone heard or read anything about the Buddhists prosleytyzing or committing some act of violence against anyone or another religion?

Great thought, alexa! You already know the perspective I'm going to bring in; I was perfectly satisfied with my own religion when I believed in god, and as I have matured, it has been just a growing away from belief, not any attraction to anyone else's belief. I just don't need magic, although that doesn't mean I don't think about the meaning of life, preservation of the planet, or eternity, dimension or nothingness. So you can expect my usual! :-)

all religions seem to have some sort of "magic" involved. the sky god is magic in 'his' own way - and definitely the pagans believe in it. i wonder how much of it that people actually experience is, besides being created in their heads, is somehow communicated between people. what exactly is that chemistry that exists between good friends and partners? why is it either there or not there? when a group or circle of people create the atmosphere of prayer or meditation, is there some sort of communication that goes beyond words or vision which creates the bonding of the group? (i'm not talking about cults here - that's a whole other psychological niche.) i have also been told of experiences where 'magic' occurs - sequences of events that are just more than coincidences. how can there be 4 different coincidental events involving one or two people in a cycle that appears to connect all of them with much detail? what is happening?

this is what one a friend told me; he is a pagan and 'talks' with Hecate: he is attacked in his apartment, the man runs away and he runs after him. at the bottom of the stairs of his building, as he is running, there just happens to be a trained, police dog there who follows the perp and helps him to catch his quarry. he talks to his sister in another city, she is worried about her pregnancy. she goes out and sees a beautiful woman in the street, dressed in a black cloak, who is staring at her. the sister feels she should say hello to this woman just to be polite. the woman tells her everything will be all right and walks away. two more things happen involving 2 animals associated with Hecate - all in a short period of time to him and his sister. Huh!? some things can be explained by deep imaginings, but others, i don't know.

i am definitely an atheist, but studying these events and behaviors is interesting. not everything is cut and dried, not even 'pure' science.

mark - interesting about the god through man controlling nature. american indians were 'with nature', also. i don't believe in gods, but i do have a spiritual connection with the earth. for that reason, i find some pagan-gaia rituals very meditative.